The President of Planet Earth by David Wheatley 2016 Esther Jansma

Esther Jansma

Over the years

and life’s losing struggle with the gravity of nature

these are poems of passion and precipices

The President of Planet Earth by David Wheatley 2016 Esther JansmaIn his fifth collection of poems, David Wheatley twins his birthplace and his current home, Ireland and Scotland, to engage issues of globalism, identity, and language. He takes inspiration from the Russian Futurist poet Velimir Khlebnikov, self nominated President of Planet Earth, who in a state of apocalyptic rapture envisioned a new world culture, its rise and its dramatic undoing. In The President of Planet Earth Wheatley brings an experimental